Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs pus…↗

opus 5.5 = personality of opus 4.6 that we all *desperately* wanted back + the intelligence & taste of fable 5.1. and a 25% usage bump! i honestly don’t really see a reason to use another model right now? s-tier release.↗

I made Claude compete against itself. The smartest model does not automatically make the best agent. To prove it, I took the same Opus 4.6 model, initial prompt, and empty repo and but it inside two different coding harnesses: Claude Code vs. @FactoryAI Droid. The task: clone…↗